The footage then cuts to various press clips of the controversy surrounding the sale of Hunter’s work while his father was president of the United States. One clip features Republican lawmakers urging then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Biden’s art sales.
“There’s something special about his art,” Berges says in the documentary. “I think it’s my job to tell that story.”
In December 2024, a month after then-President-elect Donald Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the co-hosts of Fox News’s “The Five” spent a segment of the program examining the implications of and motivations behind President Biden’s pardon of Hunter, which was widely panned on both sides of the political aisle.
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In particular, then co-host Jeanine Pirro said that it became clear the president has known all along about his son’s questionable business practices that congressional investigators have said border on the illegal and definitely involved Joe Biden and other members of his family.
The ex-president’s pardon was not simply for the gun and tax charges for which Hunter was convicted and faced sentencing this month, but covered an 11-year span dating back to 2014.
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At the time, Joe Biden was vice president and had been placed in charge of handling U.S.-Ukraine relations by President Barack Obama at a time when the country was in turmoil, while Hunter Biden began working for a Ukrainian energy firm, making millions despite not having any experience in the industry.
“And some of those years encompasses the years that David Weiss, is the so-called special counsel, I think he is, allowed the statute of limitations to run in the highest earning years that Hunter Biden had, and the years it certainly involved his father and his ‘business’ dealings,” Pirro said.
